Hate Group SPLC Releases ‘Learning for Justice’ Magazine

Breitbart News reports that the disgraced, far-left smear organization known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has reinvented its social justice Teaching for Tolerance education program and rebranded it Learning for Justice (LFJ), with an online magazine touting one of its goals: “to dismantle white supremacy.”

“Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond,” the magazine states at its website.

The Learning for Justice “community” boasts “more than 500,000 educators who read our magazine, screen our films, visit our website, listen to our podcasts, attend our trainings and webinars, use our frameworks or participate in our social media community.”

Stories in the Fall 2021 issue of Learning for Justice include “Envisioning School Safety Without Police,” “We Can Create Change Together,” and “Teaching Honest History: A New LFJ Resource for Teaching the Civil Rights Movement.”

Sample LFJ lesson plans include “Diversity in the classroom,” for grades K-2; “Chicanas and Chicanos: Viva la Raza!” for grades K-2; “Social Justice and Activism for Students,” for grades 6-8, 9-12; “Integration of Identity and Social Inclusion,” for grades 6-8; “Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Through Artwork,” for grades 9-12; and “Systemic Biases & You,” for grades 9-12.

The SPLC explains its name change to Learning for Justice by saying, “The fact is tolerance is not justice. It isn’t a sufficient description of the work we do or of the world we want.”

The world the SPLC hate group wants is the same one the Marxist left wants: one in which young, impressionable students are molded not into educated, critically thinking, productive citizens, but into social justice activists indoctrinated in such divisive, socially and personally destructive ideologies as socialism, Critical Race Theory, and “anti-racism.” It is a postmodern world in which America, the freest and most prosperous society in human history, is “fundamentally transformed” into a totalitarian state run by globalist elites who are shielded from the consequences of their own policies, as the socialist elites always are.

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Indoctrination of Young School Children

In 2020, SPLC partnered with the Loudon County, Virginia public school system to develop the new history curriculum which deliberately paints America in a highly negative light, focusing heavily on slavery and social injustice. “Sugarcoating or ignoring slavery until later grades makes students more upset by or even resistant to true stories about American history,” the curriculum reads. “Long before we teach algebra, we teach its component parts. We should structure history instruction the same way.”

The new curriculum also highlights “activism and action civics” opportunities for young students in kindergarten through second grade. “Students should study examples of role models from the past and present, and ask themselves, ‘how can I make a difference?’” the guidelines explain. “These conversations [about slavery] should lead into discussions about current injustices — particularly those that continue to disenfranchise and oppress the descendants of enslaved people — and possibilities for activism and reform.”

The political tenor of the new lessons was confirmed by a longtime Loudon County elementary teacher who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her job if her real views about the new curriculum were made known. “I teach lower grades in elementary school.… [Never before] did I have to teach about slavery,” the teacher said. “Our standards were always [to] teach about famous Americans, George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., people like that. But, it was all very general and the bigger picture, we highlighted their accomplishments.” She noted that the slavery is usually taught beginning in the fourth grade when students have greater maturity to understand it in its historical context.

“What they’re really trying to do is divide people as early as they can, starting now with kindergarteners,” the teacher added. “They’re really going to be inciting hate. They’re pointing out that there’s ‘whiteness’ and ‘blackness’, and that’s crazy. We never taught about that in school…. We learn about how to get along with one another and be kind and respect others. But now, with this new curriculum that they’re adding, it’s going to do the total opposite.”

Max Eden, an education policy expert at the libertarian-minded Manhattan Institute, concurred that the curriculum was not suitable for young children. “Students aren’t prepared when they’re five years old to develop a nuanced sense of history and political processes, and pros and cons of different side effects, and unintended consequences,” Eden said. “What the real goal of this is, by introducing [slavery] this young, is to try to get the left-wing, Nikole Hannah-Jones [creator of the 1619 Project], meta-political narrative into kids’ heads as soon as possible, which is basically trying to compel them to believe that because slavery happened, therefore, America is evil and you must follow the leftist idea of … how we need to overturn power in society.”

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